John Morganelli

John Morganelli was the Northampton County, Pennsylvania district attorney from 1992 and an unsuccessful candidate in the 7th congressional district Democratic primary in 2018.

Biography
John Morganelli, a graduate of Moravian College and Villanova, became district attorney of Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1991, and served in various legal positions in his state. Morganelli identified as a moderate Democrat, opposing illegal immigration and abortion and supporting capital punishment, women's issues, and minority rights. While he voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Morganelli was supportive of Donald Trump's anti-immigration views, and was open to becoming a US Attorney under his administration. In 2018, he sought the Democratic nomination to replace Charlie Dent in the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th district, but he lost the primary to Susan Wild.